Videos have become an important part of the way we choose to share information online as a society. After its invention, cameras were bulky and hard to utilize. Thanks to the latest advancements in technology, now almost everybody has a video camera in their pocket, with 10 times more processing power than the first Apollo Space Shuttle mission.

There is a wide range of software options on the market that allow you to apply slow-motion effects to your videos.

In this article, we will explore some of the best options available. This top 6 list contains powerful professional video editing tools, and also has user-friendly easy to use options that can be used by beginners.

Read on to find out the specific features of each of the software we chose to list in this guide.

Slow motion video tools for Windows 10

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Adobe After Effects CC (editor's choice)

Adobe After Effects is another great software option that allows you to easily slow down or speed up your videos, and offers a wide range of other useful video features. After Effects is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud pack, but can be bought as a stand-alone version.

When it comes to the ease of use, After Effects is a bit harder to get used to than the other software options presented in this article, as it requires a bit of a learning curve. If you find the wide range of features and options in this software to be a bit overwhelming, you can always visit the Adobe tutorials page.

You can also find a specific guide on how to create slow motion videos in After Effects, here.

Movavi Video Editor (suggested)

Movavi Video Editor is another great tool that can be used to apply slow-motion effects to your videos with ease. This software is designed to be easy to use, with just 20 minutes required for you to master it, can qucikly import and export into all popular formats, and bolsters intuitive drag-and-drop controls.

Movavi offers an incredible range of effects in the Movavi Store:

Buy titles, transitions, and other extras designed by the Movavi team

Media files import – from your camera, smartphone or computer hard-drive, support all popular formats

Movavi Video Editor also allows you to use your web camera to record video, can automatically detect the audio rhythm and syncs it to the tempo of your project, and also has support for Intel hardware acceleration.

Movavi Video Editor has been released in 3 different versions, each catering to the needs of different users:

Movavi Video Editor Business Edition contains all the features found in the two previous versions and also adds:

Can use one key on 2 PCs

Free minor updates

Priority support

Personal account manager

Easier screen recording

Improved recording frame – allows you to choose the capture area of your screen by click and drag

Can schedule recordings to capture the screen at any time, even remotely

New titles, stickers, music, backgrounds, etc.

Fast Track HD Technology – offers you great processing speeds

The Business Edition of Movavi Video Editor, was designed to be used either in the business sector, but it can also be used by teachers, marketers, developers, and bloggers.

Teachers can provide more comprehensive and immersive teaching sessions, can create presentations by the use of captions, call outs,etc., and can also be used to highlight actions performed by keyboard or mouse.

Bloggers can use Movavi to create high-quality content for their video blog, and can also easily edit, remove unwanted parts of the video,and even apply filters. You can also add background music and voiceover, and you can upload your video directly to YouTube.

If you feel like you need a bit of guidance regarding how to start using Movavi Video Editor, click here.

Videopad by NCH

Videopad by NCH is an amazingly powerful software that allows you to create slow-motion videos with ease. This software has a user-friendly UI (user interface) that allows you to easily create professional looking videos.

This software has a wide range of video transitions and effects, digital audio tools, and also good video optimization tools :

You can export your project directly by burning it to a disc (DVD, CD, Blu-ray), or by exporting it to a video files (avi, wmv, mpg,etc.), that can be on your hard-drive or you can directly post to YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr.

VideoPad was released in two editions, each with different features :

VideoPad Video Editor Home Edition – contains all the features, but allows only two audio tracks and no external plugins.

VideoPad Video Editor Master’s Edition – has all the features and provides unlimited audio tracks and plugins.

Ashampoo Video Optimizer Pro

Ashampoo Video Optimizer Pro is another great software option that allows you to easily apply slow motion effects to already recorded videos, and you can also choose from a wide range of video editing features.

This software can help you improve the quality of your videos, has stabilization for shaky videos, and you can use it to optimize colors and contrasts. Another great feature of Ashampoo Video Optimizer, is the fact that you can easily remove digital noise.

After you applied all the effects needed to your clip you can also use slow motion or time lapse effects to make your creation stand out even more. It also has the standard toolset of almost every video application, you can rotate, crop, and also merge your videos at the click of a button.

BeeCut

BeeCut is a great light-weight software option that allows you to play video in slow motion. You can find all basic video editing options in this software that allows you to cut, crop, merge, zoom in, adjust colors, and speed of playback.

This software also enables you to be able to add mosaic effects, text, audio and video files, etc. You can easily import your video with it’s user-friendly interface and edit them as you wish.

Wondershare Filmora

Wondershare Filmora is another great software option that allows you to create, edit and process all aspects of your video creation. You can easily add a wide range of effects, from slow-motion, to fast forwarding any part of your clip.

This software contains hundreds of presets of different types that, with the ease of use the user interface, offers great customization tools, no matter how experienced you are in the field of video editing. You can easily add filters, overlays, elements, transitions, and can also mix multiple layers of effects and audio into one.

In Wondershare Filmora, you can find an extremely rich effects rack that enable you to edit the colors in your videos, add image overlays and text, etc. This software also has a good range of royalty free music that allows you to create the perfect soundtrack for your video project.

All the changes done to your project can be saved as presets, allowing you not to repeat the process of creation too often. Why re-create a video from scratch when you can use the presets that you saved ? This allows you to save time and be more productive.

The software’s rich effects library enables you to enhance the colors in your videos, add text or image overlays.

Wondershare Filmora also offers royalty free music you can use to create a perfect soundtrack for your videos that can be exported to YouTube directly from the editor. You can add text with animations and save it as preset to use in the future.

You can also make some creative videos with the split-screen video or Chroma keying feature.

Other notable features of Wondershare Filmora include:

Extremely intuitive

Simple color correction and audio editing

Advanced features like PIP, Green Screen, Tilt-shift, Mosaic, etc

Compatible with the most commonly used formats like MP4, MKV, MOV, FLV, etc

Conclusion

These are our picks for the best video editing software that allows you to slow down or speed up your video recording with ease.

Some of the software options presented in this list are suitable for professionals with a good range of experience in video editing, and other options can be used by anybody, without needing to go through a learning process.

Some common questions about slow motion software

Adobe After Effects will let you slow down your video footage with ease, besides that, we recommend it as the go to option when it comes to any video editing process.

What is slow motion video recording?

Slow motion video recording is the process of taking a video footage usually at more than 24 frames per second. You need more than 24 frames for compression so that video will move slower and the quality will be preserved.

Another process is called time stretching, for this you will record a video as usual and then a video editing software will insert new frames.